Gruppo Triboldi Basket, also known for sponsorship reasons as Vanoli Soresina or Vanoli Cremona, is an Italian League

Serie A (basketball)

Lega Basket Serie A is the highest level club competition in Italian professional basketball where play determines the national champion. The season consists of a home-and-away schedule of 30 games, followed by an eight-team playoff round. Quarterfinals and semifinals series are best-of-five, and...

 professional basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 team whose legal domicile is in Soresina

Soresina

Soresina is a comune in the Province of Cremona in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 60 km southeast of Milan and about 25 km northwest of Cremona....

 but plays its home games in Cremona

Cremona

Cremona is a city and comune in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana . It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local City and Province governments...

. For past club sponsorship names, see the list below.

History

The club, established in 1999, had its best-ever finish in the 2008–09 season, finishing third on the season table before winning the promotion in the playoffs. The club then played the 2009–10 season in Lega A

Serie A (basketball)

Lega Basket Serie A is the highest level club competition in Italian professional basketball where play determines the national champion. The season consists of a home-and-away schedule of 30 games, followed by an eight-team playoff round. Quarterfinals and semifinals series are best-of-five, and...

, the top level of Italian basketball, after winning the 2009 promotion playoffs of the second-level LegADue

LegADue

Legadue or Lega2 is the second-highest division of professional club basketball in Italy since 2001-2002 season...

.

Roster

Notable players

Dante Calabria

Dante Calabria

Dante Calabria is a American professional basketball player.A 6'5" guard, Calabria played college basketball at the University of North Carolina under coach Dean Smith....

 1 season: '08-'09 Rodolfo Valenti Jr. 1 season: '06-'07 Silvio Gigena 2 seasons: '07-'09 Damien Ryan

Damien Ryan

Damien Ryan is an Australian basketballer.Ryan attended Salesian College in Sunbury.After starring as a junior basketballer in Sunbury, Victoria, Ryan began his NBL career with the Canberra Cannons for the 1998/1999 season and he won the Rookie of the Year award for that season...

 1 season: '07-'08 Keith Langford

Keith Langford

Keith Langford is an American professional basketball player currently playing for Maccabi Tel Aviv.He is a 6' 4" tall shooting guard. He played college basketball with the University of Kansas....

 1 season: '06-'07 Quadre Lollis 3 seasons: '06-'09

Sponsorship names

Through the years, due to sponsorship deals, it has been also known as:

• Vanoli Cremona (Vanoli Soresina) (2009–10)

External links

• Official Site